Gian Maria Volonté
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Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
as Ramón Rojo
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
as El Indio
Operation Ogre (1979)
as Izarra
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
as Vogel
Wake Up and Die (1966)
as Inspector Moroni
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
as Dottore
Festival dell’Unità 1972 (1973)
as self
The Abyss (1988)
as Zenone
Open Doors (1990)
as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
as Piero Benotti
A Bullet for the General (1967)
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
Under Ten Flags (1960)
as Samuel Braunstein
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Zénon the Rebel (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Face to Face (1967)
as Professor Brett Fletcher
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The Assassination (1972)
as Sadiel
Reflections on a Political Cinema (1978)
as Self - Interviewee
Giordano Bruno (1973)
as Giordano Bruno
One Way or Another (1976)
as M.
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
as Plessis
Lucky Luciano (1973)
as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
The Violent Four (1968)
as Piero Cavallero
Summer Night (1963)
as Alberto
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
as Lulù Massa
The Mattei Affair (1972)
as Enrico Mattei
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
as Stimolo
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
Forgotten Activism (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Phaedra (1957)
as Ippolito
Many Wars Ago (1970)
as Lt. Ottolenghi
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
as Assessore
Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
as Re di Sparta
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
as Carlo Levi
On the Tiger's Back (1961)
as Papaleo
Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
as Alberto Landolfi
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
as Professore Paolo Laurana
The Moro Affair (1986)
as Aldo Moro
Wind from the East (1970)
as The Northern Ranger
La foresta pietrificata (1959)
Actor
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)
as Narrator (voice)
A Boy from Calabria (1987)
as Felice
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
as Bernard Fontana
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
as Tarath
Spanish Western (2015)
as The Indian (archive footage)
The Witch (1966)
as Fabrizio
Letters from Marusia (1975)
as Gregorio
Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)
as Pestalozzi
The Suspect (1975)
as Emilio
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Simple Story (1991)
as Carmelo Franzò
The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)
as Aldo Cervi
Seasons of Our Love (1966)
as Leonardo Varzi
A Gangstergirl (1966)
as Jascha Freud
A Man for Burning (1962)
as Salvatore
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli (1970)
as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)
as Tirano Banderas
The Bandit (1969)
as Gramigna
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
as Bizanti
I Am Afraid (1977)
as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
The Terrorist (1963)
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
Stark System (1980)
as Stark
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli (1970)
as Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Funes, a Great Love (1993)
as El tano Bérgami
The Felling of the Forest (1963)
as Guglielmo
Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
as Renno
Summit (1968)
as Paolo
Caravaggio (1967)
as Caravaggio
La strada più lunga (1965)
as Michele
La tenda in piazza (1972)
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Saul (1959)
as David
Rosi About Eboli (2022)
as Self